There are the Uri.IsWellFormedUriString
and Uri.TryCreate
methods, but they seem to return true
for file paths etc.
How do I check whether a string is a valid (not necessarily active) HTTP URL for input validation purposes?
Try this to validate HTTP URLs (uriName
is the URI you want to test):
Uri uriResult;
bool result = Uri.TryCreate(uriName, UriKind.Absolute, out uriResult)
&& uriResult.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttp;
Or, if you want to accept both HTTP and HTTPS URLs as valid (per J0e3gan's comment):
Uri uriResult;
bool result = Uri.TryCreate(uriName, UriKind.Absolute, out uriResult)
&& (uriResult.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttp || uriResult.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttps);